Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Robinstown (delvin By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Robinstown (delvin By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63338, -7.20165
- SMR number
- WM008-085----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a prominent hillock in grassland, overlooked by a hill to the NNE, with excellent views to the E, S & NW. Ringfort (WM008-084----) 450m to NE. Ringfort (WM008-086----) 340m to SE. A raised sub-circular shaped area (diam. 37.5m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse. The bank is fragmentary and is best preserved at SE-W. The fosse is visible at NNW and from SW-W. The perimeter of the site has been dug away at WNW & SSE, and there is a quarry hole externally at N. The interior slopes from N-S and has traces of cultivation ridges which run NE-SW. At the centre of the interior is a low circular earthen mound (diam. 2.1m; H 0.15m).
See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 April 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.